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Bumble bee on bull thistle at Bodega Bay
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UC ANR is renovating its website. The Bug Squad blog, by Kathy Keatley Garvey of the University of California, Davis, is a daily (Monday-Friday) blog launched Aug. 6, 2008. It is about the wonderful world of insects and the entomologists who study them. Blog posts are archived at https://my.ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/archive.cfm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After spending the night sleeping on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, a male longhorned bee, Melissodes agilis, starts to stir. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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What's on the Day's Agenda for This Longhorned Bee?

June 20, 2022
Hey, the sun's up! It's time to rise and shine! Maybe I'll shine before I rise...or maybe I'll... Anyway, I just woke up, and I'm starting to stir. I'm ready to conquer the day. I shall Sip nectar Seek girlfriend Guard the flower patch by dive-bombing and chasing off all critters. Repeat.
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This is a male trapdoor spider in the genus Promyrmekiaphila. Youths are invited to name the species.
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Name That Spider Species

June 17, 2022
If you're a student 18 or under, here's your chance to name a spider species. You'll win the distinction of being selected the winner, and you'll be acknowledged in a scientific paper.
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This image of a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, foraging on lupine at Bodega Bay, was part of a photo series that won an international award from ACE. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Humbled and Honored to Receive ACE Awards

June 16, 2022
I'm humbled and honored to have received two major awards this week from the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE). It's an international association of communicators, educators and information technologists who focus on communicating research-based information.
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